The annual conference of the Association of French Language Studies (AFLS) will be held at Newcastle University from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd June 2012. The conference acts as a forum to encourage and promote language teaching activities and research in French linguistics in higher education. The theme of this year's conference is 'Le français à travers le temps: acquisition, changement et variation'.
Plenary speakers:
Jim Coleman (Open U): The past, present and future of French in British Universities
Marie-Hélène Côté (U Ottawa): Vers une analyse des contextes de liaison
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck, U of London): L'acquisition de la compétence sociolinguistique et sociopragmatique
Ruth King (York U): The Present Explains the Past: Variation in (Acadian) French
Sophie Prévost (CNRS/ENS Paris): Variation en français médiéval: perspectives synchronique et diachronique
The full programme is available at http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/afls2012/AFLS_2012___Newcastle_University/Programme.html
Early registration rate available *until 22 April 2012*; from 23 April, full rates will apply.
More detail on the conference is available at http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/afls2012
Dr Richard Waltereit
Newcastle University
School of Modern Languages
Old Library Building
Newcastle NE1 7RU
England, UK
Telephone 0044 191 222 3542
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/staff/profile/richard.waltereit
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